Parent accuses high school athletic director of being drunk, sexually inappropriate

Sun Sentinel file/handout

Jason Frey, left, is pictured in 2009 as a player for Gallupi Storm, an adult softball team. Larry Little, center, is pictured next to his son, football player Corey Little. Frey is suing Little for slander and libel.

Jason Frey, left, is pictured in 2009 as a player for Gallupi Storm, an adult softball team. Larry Little, center, is pictured next to his son, football player Corey Little. Frey is suing Little for slander and libel. (Sun Sentinel file/handout)

The father of a Pompano Beach High football player has waged a Twitter war against the school’s athletic director, accusing him of being a sexually inappropriate drunk who has the potential to kill students.

Now the subject of Larry Little’s disparaging tweets, Jason Frey, wants to move the battle to the courtroom. Frey is suing Little for libel and slander.

Frey’s lawsuit says the attacks began about six months ago after Frey suspended Little from volunteering with the football team. Frey had receiving complaints about inappropriate conduct by Little, which the suit did not detail.

Little said he was suspended after a player and his mother objected to the way he was showing the player how to do a block.

After being told he couldn’t continue in any football activities, Little “commenced numerous malicious attacks against Jason Frey’s character and schemed to destroy” his life by publishing “a plethora of false statements,” the lawsuit stated.

Among the claims:

-- Frey drinks alcohol and drives drunk while on campus, falls down drunk and passes out at school,

-- He had an extramarital affair with a school staff member,

-- He has made inappropriate sexual advances to Little,

-- He has threatened to physically harm student athletes,

-- He refuses to investigate verbal abuse of athletes by coaches.

-- He arbitrarily cancels sporting events for his own personal benefit.

Frey, 40, has no incidents of discipline from the state. He is also a science teacher and girls soccer coach at Pompano Beach High, where he has worked for 17 years. As athletic director, he oversees all the school’s sports programs, including football, cheerleading, cross country, volleyball, golf, swimming, basketball, soccer, baseball, softball, tennis, track and water polo.

He declined to comment to the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

Little, 63, operates an organization called SchoolFundraising4Kids, which distributes products such as cookies, candles, magazines and gift wrap to schools or groups for fundraisers. His son, Corey Little, is the captain of the Pompano High Golden Tornadoes football team. Larry Little said he’s volunteered with the team for three years and served as a PTA president at another school.

Little said he welcomes the lawsuit, and that it may finally bring attention to the complaints he says have been ignored by the school district.

His tweets have gone out to school district officials, PTA groups, journalists and politicians, including Gov. Rick Scott and Vice President Mike Pence.

His tweeting intensified after the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, where he often brought up Frey as a response to posts about violence and school safety.

One tweet, sent the day after the shooting, compared Frey to Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 at the Parkland school.

“Yesterday was a horrific display of how our leaders in Broward ignore our cries to keep our children safe,” Little wrote. “Former student w/ AR-15 or teacher falling down drunk on school property, multiple times 2 ton truck thru parking lot could have done the same damage.”

He received a letter from a district administrator on March 15 that says his concerns about Frey were investigated. The letter didn’t say whether any disciplinary action was taken, and district officials officials didn’t respond to a request from the Sun Sentinel about the outcome of the investigation.

The lawsuit says none of Little’s concerns is true.

“Larry Little made his defamatory statements about Jason Frey to literally thousands of people,” the lawsuit says, “many of whom comprise the professional and local communities with which Jason Frey works and lives, as part of Larry Little’s unconscionable scheme to smear Jason Frey’s name all over the Internet and to his colleagues.”